As most COVID-19 restrictions were already relaxed all over the world, some eight billion people are expected to celebrate the New Year in a brighter mood. Read this story by AdrianINQ to know more. INQFocus
The 12 coins also represent the 12 months of the year, indicating that if you have these, you can expect luck all-year-round.But this custom is only one of the many traditions observed all over the world for New Year. Here are some of the others:New Year celebrations in Italy come with a tradition that is believed to make the year a good one—some people throw old things out the window at midnight.
The website thepioneerwoman.com said a special bread called “vasilotopia” is served at midnight in Greece. As stressed by the website explore.com, this tradition should be easy to keep in mind—right foot for the right way. As explained by thepioneerwoman.com, the black-eyed peas represent coins while the collard greens stand for cash.The Atlas Obscura said when bells ring at midnight, revelers in Spain are too busy to set off fireworks. Instead, they’re filling their mouths with 12 green grapes.
Likewise, historically, the herring catch was crucial to economic prosperity of merchants then, seriouseats.com stressed. “In the Edo period, these New Year’s noodles, or ‘toshikoshi soba,’ eventually turned into a fixed custom done by people all over Japan—even today.”As stressed in a New Year article by the EU Business School, every child’s nightmare is represented in Switzerland on New Year’s Day by a fallen ice cream.The website pastemagazine.com said people believe that the act is expected to bring richness and good fortune.
This age-old tradition, it said, is thought to help “banish any ill fortunes or bad things that have happened over the last 12 months.”Aside from the tradition that people inside a house should not leave until someone enters from the outside, it is believed in Scotland that the first to enter should bring a gift.
But in Belarus, the website cntraveler.com said locals set free a rooster on New Year’s Day to determine which ladies will be married next. The website uncover-romania.com explained that each family cut an onion into 12 equal slices—one for each month—adding the same quantity of salt to each slice.